The nominations for this year’s Oscars were announced today, and boy are they unsurprising. For the most part, I didn’t love anything that came out this year, and I refuse to see Avatar because, well, I’m just one of those jerks who refuses to pay fourteen dollars to see a movie just because everyone’s talking about it. What did I see and love? I saw Precious and I can tell you that one definitely deserves to take home all the trophies as far as I’m concerned. Even the in categories that it’s not nominated. Best Editing?! Precious! Best Wardrobe?! Precious! And Mo’Nique should get two awards, one for her and one for that flawless skin.

Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”

George Clooney in “Up in the Air”

Colin Firth in “A Single Man”

Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”

Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”

Actor in a Supporting Role

Matt Damon in “Invictus”

Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”

Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”

Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”

Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

Actress in a Leading Role

Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”

Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”

Carey Mulligan in “An Education”

Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”

Actress in a Supporting Role

Penélope Cruz in “Nine”

Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”

Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”

Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”

Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Animated Feature Film

“Coraline” Henry Selick

“Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson

“The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements

“The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore “Up” Pete Docter

Directing

“Avatar” James Cameron

“The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow

“Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino

“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels

“Up in the Air” Jason Reitman Documentary (Feature)

“Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller

“The Cove” Nominees to be determined

“Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein

“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith

“Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa Documentary

Best Picture

“Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers

“The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined

“District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers

“An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers

“The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined

“Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer

“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers

“A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers

“Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer

“Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

So I’m going to leave it up to you to battle out in the comments who you think deserves (and definitely doesn’t deserve) to win on Oscar night. One thing for sure mentioning? Seeing more than one female name nominated for directing. More of that, Hollywood.

[For the full list of nominees, if you care about sound editing and stuff, check out the official Academy Awards site.]

Simon Cowell has put together an all-star team to remake R.E.M.’s classic song “Everybody Hurts” to benefit Haiti. The song features everybody who’s not in the upcoming movie Valentine’s Day. In fact, here’s a line-by-line guide of who is singing each lyric, pulled from the YouTube video:

Leona Lewis
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,

Rod Stewart
When youre sure youve had enough of this life, well hang on

Mariah Carey
Dont let yourself go, cause everybody cries and everybody hurts

Cheryl Cole
Sometimes…. sometimes everything is wrong.

Mika
Now its time to sing along

Michael Buble
When your day is night alone,

Joe McElderry
(hold on, hold on)

Miley Cyrus
If you feel like letting go

James Blunt
If you think youve had too much of this life, well hang on..

Gary Barlow
Cause everybody hurts..

Mark Owen
Take Comfort in your friends

Jon Bon Jovi
Dont throw your hand, oh no

James Morrison
Dont throw your hand.
If you feel like youre alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

Susan Boyle
If youre on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,

Aston Merrygold
When you think youve had too much of this life to…

Marvin Humes
…hang on

Shane Filan
Everybody hurts, sometimes,

Mark Feehily
Everybody cries

Kylie Minogue
And everybody hurts… sometimes

Robbie Williams
And everybody hurts… sometimes, so hold on, hold on

Everyone
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, repeat to fade

The song’s actually pretty good. They were working with great material (if you don’t love R.E.M., you don’t know wassup!), but each artist definitely adds something to the track. I will be purchasing it when it goes up for sale on February 8 at this site or this site or this site. And I suppose it wont really matter if you want to hear the song but don’t have the funds to download it legally, because I can already tell you that every soft-rock, Top 40 and hip hop station will be playing the hell out of this record.

I found you guys a little sneak peak of Taylor Swift in Valentine’s Day (which pretty much everyone working in Hollywood is in) and you know what? Her acting’s not offensive. In fact, she’s kinda cute and funny. Also, this clip features a split second or two of Taylor Lautner and mmm mmm, child, I do not hate that. I didn’t expect much from Little Miss Perfect in the acting department, but I can tell she’ll be a source of LOLs when I get dragged to the theater to see this. And she’s wearing short shorts! She really is acting!

Hey. So you probably noticed that I stopped posting earlier today. Or maybe you have a fucking life, I don’t know! I don’t really know anything about you and I’ll be the first to admit it! But I do know this: i had to break off today because your homey homegirl Molls has bed bugs. I would feel dirty telling you this, but I’ve never had lice or anything in my life. In fact, it’s somewhat of an epidemic in big cities these days. So, watch yo’ ass, basically. That’s what I’m saying. Watch. Yo’. Ass.

So I started thinking about it and I was like “What celebrity looks like the kind of person who would have bed bugs?”. I almost feel bad saying this because it’s like, betraying my people (us people who have experienced bugs eating our flesh in our sleep), but I think it would be Pete Doherty. Who, BTW, also happens to be relevant again because he maybe sorta supplied heroin to a British heiress who overdosed recently? Like he maybe killed her a little bit? We don’t know yet, it’s all up in the air, but here’s a photo gallery of Pete, who I think can be hot sometimes.

Morgan Freeman looked like he had just found out he actually is God when leaving Radio 1 in London yesterday after talking to Nelson Mandela.

Sooo, I’m pretty sure Amanda Bynes is dating someone who was nominated for a Grammy last night because she practically all but flat-out said it on her Twitter. To the point where I was like “Are you just sleeping with this dude and he’s not committing?”

Who could this guy be? She seems to be over-the-moon about someone (check out her Twitter. It’s all “love quotes” and heart symbols and mentions of marriage), but she never hints toward who it could be (last night her multiple announcements that he was at the Grammys was the first clue she’s ever really given.) To me, these read like she wants to shout “I’m having sex with _______!” from the rooftops, but he might be hesitant to have the word out.

I mean, c’mon. Would you be quick to commit to a young actress who Tweets lyrics from love songs all day? Probably not. But if I remember correctly what it was like to be in my very early 20s and totally love a guy who doesn’t love me back, there is going to be a painful wake-up call for this young lady in the future.

Now who do we think it could be? I’m going to be so disappointed if it’s some sound engineer.